Another Sky Price Increase

[Morningside]

Man bills Sky for all the time they have wasted in him trying to cancel.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3091022/Ma...

[KTF]

Morningside said:

Man bills Sky for all the time they have wasted in him trying to cancel.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3091022/Ma...

i thought you could only cancel if you moved house to a non sky area? When we moved they do a sky move for free.

I suspect there is more to this than the article makes out.

[Klippie]

Best thing I ever did was get rid of Sky...it took roughly two years for them to stop send "come back to Sky" letters though.

[bad company]

If anybody else is negotiating with Sky it's worth mentioning that inflation is now zero %. For non footballers that is.

[Petrol Only]

Well they managed to convince me to come back for another year. 60% off plus a £140 credit on my bill.

So basic package plus sports £18.20 a month. Getting 7 months free! Would have paid me if I just took the £8 TV package... Desperate to have me back!

Edited by Petrol Only on Wednesday 17th June 13:30

[PapaJohns]

Petrol Only said:

Well they managed to convince me to come back for another year. 60% off plus a £140 credit on my bill.

So basic package plus sports £18.20 a month. Getting 7 months free! Would have paid me if I just took the £8 TV package... Desperate to have me back!

Edited by Petrol Only on Wednesday 17th June 13:30

They have been offering me 60% off plus £100 credit for months now, but it's only if you still have your original box etc, I tried bragging the 1tb box and I'll come back to no avail.

[bad company]

So I have the original package with sports & multiroom. I have been paying £34 monthly which Sky want to increase to £44 as apparently the multiroom offer has ended. That's an increase of over 25%!!!

Told the to cancel so we will see if they come back with anything better.

[f1_dragon]

Bit of a resurrection...my half price deal expired so I'm going through the whole process again.

I am being told that in order to get F1 in HD I only need the Original bundle + Sky Sports. Previously I needed the Family bundle and premium HD pack in addition. Does anybody know for sure what is required to watch F1 in HD? I need to be sure so I don't paint myself into a corner during the 'negotiations'...:-)

Thanks!

[bracken78]

Probably not much help but all I have is the legacy pack (I think thats the name) so basically have HD and Sky F1 and that's all.

[London424]

My half price deals have expired and they would only offer me 10% off which wasn't going to fly as a new customer tranfering over would get 50% off.

I've requested the cancellation so have the 31 day countdown for the games to begin.

[944fan]

f1_dragon said:

Bit of a resurrection...my half price deal expired so I'm going through the whole process again.

I am being told that in order to get F1 in HD I only need the Original bundle + Sky Sports. Previously I needed the Family bundle and premium HD pack in addition. Does anybody know for sure what is required to watch F1 in HD? I need to be sure so I don't paint myself into a corner during the 'negotiations'...:-)

Thanks!

As someone mentioned above there was a legacy pack where you got F1 by just having the HD add on. Now you need Sky Sports to get F1.

Having the legacy pack puts you in a bad position when negotiating a discount I found. I got roughly 10% off mine but they were offering bigger discounts if I came of the legacy pack. Seems like they want to everyone off the legacy F1 pack.

[Scuffers]

finally quit Sky..

got offered everything to stay, ended with the £18/month deal for 12 months.

still quit anyway.

Edited by Scuffers on Monday 29th February 14:11

[ukaskew]

I left Sky 3 months ago (Legacy HD pack), the offers have been getting better and better every week. I've held firm until now but got a letter with this one on Saturday...

Everything (as in HD, Sky Sports, Sky Movies, Box Sets etc) for £25 per month for 12 months.

Considering we were paying more than that for a Legacy HD pack with no Movies or Sport (aside from F1), it's tempting and frustrating in equal measure. I think my Dad is paying about £70 for the same package.

I don't think I've ever seen a cheaper deal for 'the works' actually quoted in a mailshot (i.e. not agreed over the phone).

Edited by ukaskew on Monday 29th February 14:07

[bad company]

I ended up paying £35 per month including multi room (2 Sky boxes), includes sport & family packages.

[f1_dragon]

Thanks all. Cancelation initiated, let's see what does or doesn't get offered.

For clarity, I wasn't lucky enough to be on the Legacy HD deal so in order to watch F1 in HD( my main requirement), I previously had to get:

- Sky Sports (for F1 Channel)
- Family Bundle (in order to be eligible for the HD pack)
- HD pack (required to view F1 in HD)

I'm now being told that I only need the Original bundle + Sky Sports to view F1 in HD, which seems a bit good to be true!

[KTF]

f1_dragon said:

I'm now being told that I only need the Original bundle + Sky Sports to view F1 in HD, which seems a bit good to be true!

Running through a dummy order on the sky website suggests this combination is valid.

You could always call them up or have a 'Live chat' to confirm.

[f1_dragon]

Yeh it was a chat session where I was told I now only needed original + sports. Will wait for them to (hopefully) give me a call to offer a deal and then see, as the retentions team seemed clued up when I spoke to them last year.

[BigBen]

KTF said:

f1_dragon said:

I'm now being told that I only need the Original bundle + Sky Sports to view F1 in HD, which seems a bit good to be true!

Running through a dummy order on the sky website suggests this combination is valid.

You could always call them up or have a 'Live chat' to confirm.

That is still coming up as being about £60 a month for me. Doesn't sound like that much of a bargain, I pay about £40 with my legacy pack which is still too much imo

[KTF]

BigBen said:

That is still coming up as being about £60 a month for me. Doesn't sound like that much of a bargain, I pay about £40 with my legacy pack which is still too much imo

I get this when I run through an order as a non-signed in new to sky customer:

[Some Gump]

Just called to cancel the lot, on the back of no motors tv.

Current offer is 17.50 for line rental, boradband, and keep the recording functionality of sky +.

What's the forunm wizdom - cancel the lot and hope for a decent offer for telly in a month, or just take the (pretty good tbh) BB offer and sack the telly off?